Positive Aquaculture Awareness News Notice - Jan. 9, 2015

January 9, 2015

Recent News and Blogs we found of interest:

Salmon Capital of the World means so much more today
Sean Smith / Campbell River Courier-Islander, January 7, 2015
...We are the home to the Canadian headquarters of companies like Cermaq and Marine Harvest, which raise and deliver salmon product around the world. We are the home to the BC Centre for Aquaculture Health Sciences (BCAHS), which has been doing industry leading research on things like salmon health for a decade now
 
It’s time to grow more salmon in BC
Consumers in the US are wanting more and more fresh, farmed salmon and it seems ridiculous that most of it is imported from Norway and Chile rather than from across the border.
Odd Grydeland, FishfarmingXpert, January 7, 2015
Along a coastline not unlike that of Norway, British Columbian salmon farmers are producing some 80,000 tonnes of product in a good year, while their comrades in Norway are approaching 2 million tonnes of annual production of Atlantic salmon and trout. If BC made the same use of its coastal resources, the salmon farming industry would be worth close to that of the entire tourism industry in the province. And, by the way, Norway also has a thriving tourism business.

Plenty of quality salmon available for sushi
Odd Grydeland, FishfarmingXpert, January 5, 2015
Canada: A Bloomberg editor fails to recognize advances in salmon farming technology and industry regulations.
 
Sea lice counts to end of December 2014 posted
Cermaq Canada , January 5, 2015
As part of our continued commitment to transparency, sea lice counts for all our sites have been updated to include December 2014 data
 
 
Blogs of Interest
 
Eco-lawyers get sucked into personal vendetta in nuisance lawsuit
Ecojustice is a charity which exists to file environment-related lawsuits against corporations and the government. Once again, they’ve set their sights on the topic of salmon aquaculture at the behest of Alexandra Morton.
 
@ecojustice_ca Spending your donors' money on nuisance lawsuits is shameful.
 
Alexandra Morton jumps on the anti-vaccine crazy train with funding campaign that insults donors
2014/12/29 salmonfarmscience
Alexandra Morton has just self-shredded any last vestiges of credibility she may have had with her cynical new ad campaign, in which she tells tall tales while pandering to the lowest common denominator of stupidity.
 
Craig Kasberg: Alaska Seafood Source & Tunnel Vision
Posted by Alaska Salmon Ranching on Tuesday, December 30, 2014 This blog has highlighted many attempts by seafood brokers who choose to demarket or slander “competition” to promote their product. Instead of promoting all seafood for what it is – healthy – they choose to think that fighting amongst ourselves helps consumers make the right choice. Beef, poultry, and pork producers are loving it.
 
Alaska salmon fisheries enhancement: the numbers
Posted by Alaska Salmon Ranching on Monday, January 5, 2015 ·
Alaska’s 32 salmon hatcheries produced the following catch numbers in 2013:
 
Pacific Northwest Salmon
 
UBC student aims to understand the scale of seals’ impact
MARK HUME, VANCOUVER — The Globe and Mail,  Sunday, Dec. 28 2014,
Andrew Trites is director of the Marine Mammal Research Unit at the University of British Columbia. Fisheries managers have long struggled with the question of exactly what impact the tens of thousands of harbour seals on the West Coast are having on salmon populations.
 
2014 a great year for fishing in Campbell River
Jeremy Maynard / Campbell River Courier Islander, December 26, 2014
 
Climate Change Projected To Move Salmon North
Eugene Weekly | December 31, 2014
Oregon’s salmon might be moving toward Alaska at a rate of about 30 kilometers (19 miles) a decade, according to a study in the January 2015 issue of Progress in Oceanography. “Marine life is being affected by changes in ocean conditions resulting from changes in climate and chemistry triggered by combustion of fossil fuels,” the study says.
 
 
150+ scientists & technicians are partnering to research #salmon losses in #Salish Sea - 3 min. on how & why: http://ow.ly/GXcWh 
 
Dr. Dick Beamish talks about the difference between 1% and 3% for #salmon returns: http://ow.ly/GXea4  @bcit @mossomcreek @FondaFishing